<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">WSIS Forum 2020 is well under way, and the main sessions continue until 24 July (<a href="https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2020/Agenda">agenda</a>). ISOC A11ySIG put in a request for this session to be streamed. If you see something else in there you think we should cover, feel free to suggest it at <a href="mailto:webcast@isoc.org">webcast@isoc.org</a> .</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Apparently, as well as real time text, there will be sign language on this session. I imagine that will be BSL, but we shall see.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><u></u>
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ISOC Live posted: "On Friday 26 June 2020 at 10:00-11:00 UTC the Inter Islamic Network on Information Technology and others host a WSIS Forum 2020 thematic workshop 'Session 188 - Digital Accessibility in a COVID-19 World'. In this session a diverse group of panelists, incl" </span>
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<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><a style="color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="http://livestream.com/internetsociety/wsis2020-188" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://isoc.live/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/wsis2020-188-300x169.png" alt="livestream" width="300" height="169" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; padding: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"></a>On <strong>Friday 26 June 2020</strong> at <strong>10:00-11:00 UTC</strong> the <strong><a style="color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="http://www.init.org.pk/" target="_blank">Inter Islamic Network on Information Technology</a></strong> and others host a <strong><a style="color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2020/" target="_blank">WSIS Forum 2020</a></strong> thematic workshop '<strong><a style="color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2020/Agenda/Session/188" target="_blank">Session 188 - Digital Accessibility in a COVID-19 World</a></strong>'. In this session a diverse group of panelists, including Persons with Disabilities from different regions of the world, technologists, and national innovation system experts, seek to explore the major challenges for accessibility created by the current pandemic, not just in terms of assistive technologies, but also access to them. The webcast of this session is facilitated by the <strong><a style="color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://a11ysig.org" target="_blank">Internet Society Accessibility Special Interest Group</a></strong> (A11ySIG).</p>
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<li style="margin-left:1em;line-height:1.4em"><strong>Prof. Dr. Raheel Qamar</strong>, COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI)/ President INIT</li>
<li style="margin-left:1em;line-height:1.4em"><strong>Dr. Tahir Naeem</strong>, COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI) /Executive Director(INIT)</li>
<li style="margin-left:1em;line-height:1.4em"><strong>Julius Sweetland</strong>, Founder and CEO, Opti-Key, UK</li>
<li style="margin-left:1em;line-height:1.4em"><strong>Hazma Afridi</strong>, Afridi Brothers Society , UK</li>
<li style="margin-left:1em;line-height:1.4em"><strong>Lobna Smida</strong>, Presidential Palace of Tunisia</li>
<li style="margin-left:1em;line-height:1.4em"><strong>Shakila Yasmin</strong>, VP, Pakistan Disabled Foundation</li>
<li style="margin-left:1em;line-height:1.4em"><strong>Prof. Shahid Ahmed Memon</strong>, Chair, Pakistan Disabled Foundation</li>
<li style="margin-left:1em;line-height:1.4em"><strong>Dr. Akber Gardezi</strong>, COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Inter Islamic Network on Information Technology</li>
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